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How to organize inter-organizational collaborations within R&D projects to improve their innovative performance? Hasselt University

Wim VANHAVERBEKE
Innovation Management
In recent years, firms have increasingly engaged into collaborations in their research and development activities. While some firms have been extremely successful in their collaboration activities, a considerable number of many other firms reported remarkable difficulties or even experienced striking failures. At the same time, scholars also have been debating whether inter-organizational collaboration improve or hamper firm performance. In most ...

New Perspectives on the Financing of R&D and Innovation KU Leuven

Dirk Czarnitzki
Department of Management, Strategy and Innovation, Leuven

The overall objective of the dissertation is to open new perspectives on the financing of R&D and innovation. In particular, this thesis examines the role of external debt finance for funding investments in R&D in the bank-based continental European country Belgium and how this relates to the receipt of public support. Previous literature has largely focused on investigating the extent to which R&D performing companies rely on ...

Econometric evaluation of R&D policy instruments in EU member states. KU Leuven

Dirk Czarnitzki
Department of Management, Strategy and Innovation, Leuven
R&D investment in the business sector is subject to market failure. First, companies cannot appropriate all returns from their R&D investments,as knowledge may spill-over to rivals. Second, firms may suffer from financial constraints for their R&D investments, due to asymmetric information between the company and external investors, such as banks. Thus, firms may lack collateral for needed loans for their R&D activity.

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Global knowledge spillovers between market rivals: cross-border internal linkage strategies in R&D, multi-location technology competition, and heterogeneity in IPR policies KU Leuven

Rene Belderbos
Department of Management, Strategy and Innovation, Leuven

An important risk for multinational enterprises (MNEs) performing R&D at a global level is unintended technology diffusion to other firms (knowledge spillovers). One way a MNE can aim to reduce the risk that its knowledge and technologies are misappropriated by others is to adopt an R&D strategy focusing on control through internal linkages across dispersed R&D units. This project addresses three related and important issues. ...

The financing of R&D KU Leuven

Dirk Czarnitzki
Department of Management, Strategy and Innovation, Leuven
This project will contribute to the literature in three important domains. First, it will amount to developing a new econometric estimator, the multi-degree censored regression model. This model can be applied to the context of financial constraints to innovation. While the current literature mostly revolves around how to identify financial constraints for innovation, the new econometricestimator serves a different purpose: it allows to focus on ...

Learning how to behave: an analysis of the behavioural changes induced by public support for R&D. KU Leuven

Stijn Kelchtermans
Department of Management, Strategy and Innovation, Leuven, Department of Management, Strategy and Innovation, Brussels Campus

This research seeks to shed light on the behavioural changes both firms and individuals go through when faced with a complex R&D policy environment. In a first instance, I show that complexity leads companies to mimic their peers’ decisions to adopt newly introduced tax exemptions. Implementing an innovative approach to identify this effect, I rely on economic homophyly and geographical proximity to identify networks of firms, and show ...

Open Innovation and internationalization of R&D activities in multinational companies (MNEs) Hasselt University

Wim VANHAVERBEKE
Innovation Management
The increasing trend towards internationalization of R&D activities implies that MNEs cooperate with local R&D partners abroad (e.g. universities, research labs, other firms, etc╝). Consequently, this trend should be related to open innovation which focuses on the benefits of tapping into external technology sources. However, globalization of R&D and open innovation have not been connected so far. This PhD-study intends to fill this ...

The Impact of R&D Decisions on the Downstream Immunization System. Focus on the last mile access-to-medicines issues in low- and middle-income countries. KU Leuven

Nico Vandaele
Faculty of Business and Economics, Kulak Kortrijk Campus

For many human infectious diseases, in particular for those caused by viruses for which no treatment is available, it is of utmost importance to have effective vaccines at hand. Prevention of suffering and death from infectious diseases by means of prophylactic vaccination is the most (cost-)effective public health intervention available today. However, for many pathogens no such vaccines exist. Many vaccines have features that impede their ...

Global cities as Knowledge Hubs and the R&D Location Choices of Multinational Companies KU Leuven

Rene Belderbos
Department of Management, Strategy and Innovation, Leuven

This research aims to investigate the role of global cities as international knowledge hubs and the role of global cities' connectivity in R&D location strategies of multinational companies. The study has three objectives: Firstly, it aims to measure the characteristics of global cities’ connectivity over the past 15 years (2000-2015) measured by city-specific indicators such as technology specialization, the actors involved in the ...

Global cities as Knowledge Hubs: Multinational firms, Connectivity and R&D Locations KU Leuven

Rene Belderbos
Department of Management, Strategy and Innovation, Leuven

Multinational firms’ knowledge creating activities have become increasingly global in scope, yet tend to be concentrated in a distinct set of geographic knowledge hubs. The world’s leading internationally connected cities (‘global cities’) act as such knowledge hubs and host a disproportional share of high skilled workers, universities and innovative firms. The aim of this research project is to generate an in-depth understanding of the ...